may your may days be bright…

“save the cat” – screenwriting 101 – few good ideas – mostly just recycled things – because, as you know, most movies are recycled anyway…

“out of the silent planet” by lewis – cs lewis – narnia fame – ransom, the narrator, a teacher, is captured and taken to a whole new world – actually, a better world – unlike ours – that’s uncommunicative, silent, with the rest of the world b/c our prince is a fallen angel – a reread for me – i liked the series the first time – this read was good too

“five chiefs” by john paul stevens – former supreme court justice – his memories of five chief justices he met/worked for – lots of laws and decisions he mentioned that aren’t in the top 10 that i typically read about (marbury v. madison, dred scott, brown vs. board, ny times v. sullivan, miranda, etc.) – i fell in and out of “getting” all that stevens wrote – above me at times – but great book – and good point about originalists (those that always want to know what the “founders” would’ve done – stevens points out that laws are for the living – even the founders believed this – and i think it rings true)

“hunger games” – and finally, there’s this book i’d heard about… okay, before i mislead a sixth grader, let me assure you that i heard about the book months before it ever came out, and i read it years ago – so a reread – enough time that i’d forgotten small details (that katniss came from the appalachian mountains – so it makes since that she’s a volunteer)

what’s to like about the “games”??? how about that it reads quickly – which i hope you do this week as you finish your next-to-last journals

maf